"I've come to the realization this is not my time," he said on Fox News.

Thus comes the final end for "Bobby" Jindal, a warped bit of presidential timber who, believe it or not, actually did have a "time." It was brief and it occurred on January 23, 2013, just after the president had been inaugurated for his second term. Jindal got up in front of the Republican National Committee's winter meeting and spoke a kind of truth to them.

"We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," he said. "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I'm here to say we've had enough of that."

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While an admirable sentiment for anyone attached to a party actually willing to help govern the country, Jindal, alas, was still a Republican. A year or so later, defying all odds and any concept of sanity, the Republicans elected a congressional majority that was loopier even than the one they'd sent to Washington in 2010. Clearly, Stupid was their brand and it remained undamaged. Jindal certainly got the message. He immediately jumped onto the brand with both feet. If Stupid was going to win, then Jindal was going to be a winner. His transformation to Full Wingnut pretty much demolished Louisiana, and his approval ratings therein. By the time he got around to launching his presidential campaign, Jindal might as well have been a fugitive. He traipsed around the landscape, being sillier and sillier, while Louisiana continued to go to hell in a handbasket, finding itself afflicted with poverty, pollution, and brain-eating amoebas. Meanwhile, its governor was in Iowa, burbling about the war on Christianity, and blaming the parents of mass shooting victims for the death of their children. Next week, it is very likely that Louisiana may elect a Democrat to succeed Bobby Jindal, who had a moment once, but it scared him stupid.